There are thousands of things that people care about in this life, but there is one thing that they care about from birth to old age - good health.
Health is our blessing to our children; health is our concern for the elderly.
Health is 1, and everything else is 0.
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We are willing to spend money on health.
Here are some data: In 2024, the country's total health expenditure will exceed 9 trillion yuan for the first time, accounting for 6.7% of GDP; during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, nearly 100 billion yuan will be invested in people's livelihood, of which health expenditure is one of the areas with the highest proportion.
Money spent on health makes medical treatment more comfortable and services more considerate.
Service outlets are closer to you - there are more than 1.1 million medical and health institutions across the country, and more than 90% of residents can reach the nearest medical service point within 15 minutes. The number of primary medical and health institutions has increased by more than 80,000 in the past five years. Community health service centers, township health centers, and village clinics have shortened the journey to see a doctor from "a day in the city" to "a quarter of an hour out".
Life-saving drugs are cheaper - the average price of heart stents has dropped from 13,000 yuan to about 700 yuan, and centralized drug procurement is expanding every year.
The insurance is more reliable - the cumulative expenditure of the medical insurance fund during the "14th Five-Year Plan" exceeded 13 trillion yuan, benefiting nearly 20 billion medical visits.
Money spent on health cares for everyone and no one will be given up.
Many people remember a viral video in December 2021. On this side of the negotiation table are negotiators from the National Medical Insurance Administration; on the other side of the table is a multinational pharmaceutical company. The talk is about a drug to treat the rare disease spinal muscular atrophy.
The company representative started quoting from 53,680 yuan, and the negotiator asked again and again: "Have you tried your best?" After 90 minutes and 8 rounds of quotations, the price finally stopped at 33,000 yuan, and it was included in the medical insurance reimbursement. "No small group should be given up." These words of the negotiator made countless people's eyes red.
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Health is not just about seeing well, but also about not getting sick.
A survey by the World Health Organization shows that if you spend 1 yuan more on prevention, you can spend 8.5 yuan less on treatment, and you can save 100 yuan on rescue costs.
Prevention is the most cost-effective and cost-effective health strategy. This sentence turned into many institutional arrangements.
In 2024, 16 departments jointly launched the "Weight Management Year" three-year action. Weight scales and waist circumference measurements will be introduced into units and communities, and more and more weight management clinics in hospitals will be opened. The area of sports venues per capita has doubled in ten years, and fitness trails have been built right at the doorstep. Funding for basic public health services has increased year by year. Screening for "two cancers" for women of appropriate age, physical examinations for the elderly, and vaccinations for children are all paid by the government. Physical examinations have been extended to rural areas.
Taking good care of oneself is a compulsory health course for everyone; building a strong group defense line is a must-answer question for public health.
In the past few years, we have experienced a "big test" due to the epidemic. The country used the strictest prevention and control measures to block the spread of the disease, and the angels in white risked their lives for treatment. The belief of never giving up was throughout, and we overcame the difficulties.
This big exam also puts a question in front of us: Can we handle it better next time?
The answer is written in the system answer sheet - build a strong public health system, improve the disease prevention and control system, and build a major epidemic prevention and treatment system that combines peacetime and wartime.
In a word: move the line of defense forward - early detection, early warning, early treatment, and strive to nip the epidemic in the bud.
Today, 1,323 sentinel hospitals, 1,097 vector organism monitoring points, and 833 urban sewage monitoring points across the country have formed an all-weather early warning network; more than 50,000 medical institutions have installed intelligent monitoring and early warning systems. The time from diagnosis to reporting of infectious diseases has been shortened from the past 5.2 hours to 3.7 hours. The system knows before people what viruses "emerge"; the newly revised Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Law in 2025 has written monitoring and early warning into the law.
Shang Gong treats the disease before it is sick, but does not cure the disease already. Today, we are building a smart health system that relies on the "small prescription" of immediate medical and health services. In the long run, it also depends on the "big prescription" of overall social linkage, so that health services cover the entire population and the entire life cycle. This is from "treating illness" to "preventing illness".
It is of course better to treat the disease when it comes than to prevent it from coming.
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A person's health is the stability of his family; the stability of thousands of households is the life of the country.
my country's population over 60 years old exceeds 300 million. The healthy lifespan of the elderly determines how thick the pension account is; the state of the labor force of hundreds of millions determines the potential for development.
Health is the goal and support of development. The first half of the sentence refers to the fact that the country has spent money on health in recent years, and our average life expectancy has reached 79.25 years. The second half of the sentence refers to the life expectancy of 79.25 years, which is in turn turning into a real growth force. The health needs of 300 million elderly people are a market of 300 million people. Healthy tourism, smart testing equipment, trendy sports... Looking back over the years, you will find that these new businesses around you all grow on the tree of "health".
The national health level continues to rise, laying a solid human foundation for development.
Health is the future national strength
Health is related to the destiny of the country
Health is our greatest asset
It is also China’s deepest confidence!
(Author/Sun Qingkun)
